New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams used city resources to forge a picture of a slain police officer he claimed he carried in his wallet for decades. Sources inside NY City Hall say the Democrat, who was asked to produce the photograph by the media days after he mentioned it at a press conference, had staff print out a black and white photo of Officer Robert Venable found on Google, then artificially age it by crumpling it up and even splashing coffee on it.
By its own admission, the Mayor’s office “wasted an inordinate amount of time” contacting family members and former colleagues of Venable to try and substantiate his claims of a close friendship with the late policeman after the story broke, complaining he was the victim of a “campaign to paint [him] as a liar.”
Mayor Adams has been caught stretching the truth before, however. During the 2021 mayoral campaign he claimed he had transferred ownership of a Brooklyn apartment to someone else in 2007, producing a letter that was not notarized and bore only his signature as “proof”. This year he filed disclosure forms showing he still owns it.
Adams does not take criticism well, recently exploding at an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor who accused him of raising rents in the city. Adams claimed the old lady was treating him like a plantation slave, and demanded she “give me the respect I deserve”.
